Even before the Ghanaian electorates could decide whether to accept the opposition National Democratic Congress back into power or not, there is already intense jostling within the party for government positions.
The National Chairman of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, who made this revelation, said the struggle for positions among party members in the various Constituencies and regions is thwarting reconciliatory efforts.
He called on party members to forgo their ambitions and unite to work to ensure victory for the party as the current situation within the party could erode its chances of returning to power.
“We have been going to the various constituencies in the region. There are places you go and the difference is about somebody has said that ‘when we win, I will appoint the DCE’. And then that becomes the major bone of contention why you cannot even cooperate to win first. If you don’t win, how do you get that DCE?” He stated.
“There are places where some would say ‘I have heard that person is in that person’s good books and I have rumors that he will be appointed over me, so let me try and make sure we can’t win’. Let’s go for the hunting first and when we bring the meat, we then decide who will take the head, who will take the quarter, who will take that”.
The National Chairman of the opposition party said this during the party flagbearer’s tour of the Greater Accra Region as part of his Building the Ghana We Want Tour.
Asiedu Nketiah underscored the importance of unity in the NDC’s quest for victory, stating that the party should not allow its main opponents, the governing New Patriotic Party to divide its fronts.
“The biggest problem the NPP is having now is unity. If you don’t have that unity, you can have all the money in the world, you can’t win elections. So they will want to create disunity amongst us so they can weaken us and defeat us. So don’t think that whatever is happening amongst us, our other brothers are not interested. They are very interested”.
